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- FIFA will let council members inspect unspecified “key documents” in person at its Zurich headquarters, subject to strict review protocols, with registration requested within two weeks.
- Mattias Grafstrom wrote hours before UEFA’s 2 November deadline that FIFA considered its more than 100 questions infeasible, citing preparations for a new youth World Cup in Azerbaijan and an extraordinary congress.
- Gianni Infantino apologized at a council meeting for the abandoned FFE proposal but gave no full account of how it was devised and asked that questions be submitted in writing.
- UEFA said withdrawing FFE, acknowledging mistakes and announcing potential reforms did not explain how decisions were made or why the council was not involved at the appropriate stage; it said answers were required now.
- UEFA launched legal action in October in the US seeking disclosure of evidence and documents, and warned it could lodge a criminal complaint in Switzerland; the source says this limits FIFA’s ability to answer.
- Fifa Forward Enterprise could not have proceeded without cumulative, mandatory FIFA Council approval and a majority of member associations, and Grafstrom said withdrawing it carried no penalty.
- UEFA also questioned FIFA’s funding to national associations, the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize for Donald Trump and Folarin Balogun’s suspended World Cup ban.
Why it matters: UEFA’s more than 100 questions and warning of a criminal complaint in Switzerland leave Infantino under pressure before the 18 November deadline for candidates to confirm they are standing against him, while council members receive restricted access rather than unrestricted disclosure. The unresolved issue is how the abandoned plan was devised and approved.
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